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Nashua-Plainfield basketball

The Nashua-Plainfield boys basketball team wrapped up its season a little sooner than they wanted to last Thursday, falling 58-50 to Ackley-Geneva-Wellsburg-Steamboat Rock (AGWSR) in Class 1A, District 4 action at Rockford.
In a back-and-forth defensive struggle that featured 10 lead changes, the...

There are times, Nashua-Plainfield girls basketball coach Josh Smith concedes, that he wouldn’t mind playing in anything other than the Top of Iowa Conference East Division.
It is, in a word, loaded, and the result last week was two more losses for the Huskies.
“On one hand having a bunch of wins...

Don’t get Justin Eiffler wrong, the Nashua-Plainfield boys basketball coach didn’t want his team’s season to end last Thursday night. Yet, the Husky coach could not have been more proud of the way his team played in a 57-40 loss to seventh-ranked Don Bosco in a Class 1A district quarterfinal game...

Forget the record, Nashua-Plainfield coach Josh Smith knows Sierra Fisher, Abby Lumley and the rest of his players are all winners. Yes, the Huskies’ season ended Saturday night with a 3-20 record after a 70-31 loss to Waterloo Columbus in a Class 2A regional opener in which Nashua-Plainfield...

The play called for Isaac Chambers to use a screen from teammate Dawson Schmitt and get a short jumper. Instead, the Nashua-Plainfield sophomore improvised just a bit. “I saw I had a pretty clear path to the basket and the way my jumper had been falling — or not falling — I went with it,”...

If there’s one lesson Justin Eiffler wants his young Huskies to take from the 2016-17 season, it is this: Slow starts are costly. The Huskies re-learned that lesson again last week in a 61-45 loss to North Butler and to a lesser degree on Monday in a 68-47 loss to St. Ansgar that dropped Nashua-...

In a year where wins have been hard to come by, Nashua-Plainfield girls basketball coach Josh Smith continues to find positives. And despite losing three games — 46-31 to North Butler, 73-43 to MFL-Mar-Mac and 47-34 to St. Ansgar — he believes his Huskies are heading in the right direction.In two...

A fun run usually comes during cross country meets. But Nashua-Plainfield coach Justin Eiffler wants his boys basketball team to have one. “As a team we are just trying to click as one heading down the stretch of the season,” he said after a win over Clarksville and losses to Osage and...

While team consistency is still not a strength for Nashua-Plainfield’s girls yet, there are plenty of individual accomplishments to talk about. Like Sierra Fisher’s double-double against Osage, and another for her against Garner-Hayfield/Ventura. Or maybe Abby Lumley’s five steals against G-H/V...

Persistence finally paid off for Nashua-Plainfield’s Britney Holthaus last week as she pulled herself out of a season-long offensive funk and scored 36 points in a pair of games. While the Huskies came up short in both games — losing to Mason City Newman 77-37 and Central Springs 75-41 — Holthaus...